Shear Madness: Murderously Funny Comedy
When Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan acquired the worldwide rights to Swiss playwright Paul Portner’s murder mystery Scherenschnitt, they couldn’t have known that the renamed and reformed work Shear Madness would become the phenomenal global success it has.
Now some 28 years after its January 1980 premiere and, according to the website, over 11,000 performances, the stage hit has earned its spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest-running play in the history of American theater.
Shear Madness is currently available in three U.S. locations: Boston, Washington, D.C., and Chicago, with the first two productions permanent. The local …read more
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